LEST WE FORGET YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED HERE SHE IS AGAIN – Like Helen of Troy, Yassmin is a turban that launched a thousand tweets. Last year she was one, this year there will be an army of Yassmins, thanks to Sally Rugg (“LGBTIQ activist, writer + speaker. Former campaign director @GetUp, about to start as national director for @Change.org. This is a personal account. I’m gay.”):

https://twitter.com/sallyrugg/status/986883189841903616

I don’t know; it would show that there are thousands of lefties trying to politicise another public occasion and appropriate it for their unrelated political causes?

I’m not sure what the point was other than injecting refugee politics into commemoration of the war fallen, and judging from the comments, no one else had a clue either. Finally, when “The Australian” reported on the (non-)story:

https://twitter.com/sallyrugg/status/987146237152391168

That you annoy people when you try to hijack a day they remember their relatives who served and died – there is nothing truly extraordinary about this experiment. Perhaps Change.org is over-paying here for Sally’s expertise.